Fermionic Functional Integrals and the Renormalization Group

The Renormalization Group is the name given to a technique for analyzing the qualitative behaviour of a class of physical systems by iterating a map on the vector space of interactions for the class. In a typical non-rigorous application of this technique one assumes, based on one's physical intuition, that only a certain ♀nite dimensional subspace (usually of dimension three or less) is important. These notes concern a technique for justifying this approximation in a broad class of Fermionic models used in condensed matter and high energy physics.